CALL FOR PAPERS
The Researcher: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Retrospect 2024: New Reflections on Generational Movements
The Researcher: An Interdisciplinary Journal (ISSN 0271-5058) is a peer-reviewed journal published at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, the nation’s 4th largest Historically Black College and University (HBCU).
This special issue of The Researcher, Retrospect: New Reflections on Generational Movements, engages intergenerational discourse, highlighting student research, in hopes to gain new perspectives on transformative concepts in works of scholarship and creativity which helped define generational movements toward liberation, justice, and equity. This includes works of art, philosophy, criticism, literature, music, performance, photography, etc. We invite submissions of scholarly research, textual and rhetorical analysis, review, commentary, and criticism from the humanities, social sciences, education, environmental sciences, law, and/or any other areas of related scholarship.
As we near the mark of a quarter century, the urge to take an instinctual glance back is at once intuitive and imperative. A breath into the third millennium, we already find ourselves faced with technological, environmental, and socio-political change poised to usher in unprecedented terms for human survival. The gravity of the day compels us to examine the last 25 years and re-view prior periods of historical transition—to further contextualize those critical movements and works that reach forward from the past to speak to our future from the vantage point of today.
While contributors are encouraged to write about a range of subjects they deem relevant, possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Abolitionist Movement
- Anti-Apartheid/Black Consciousness Movement
- Anti-war movements
- Black Lives Matter Movement
- Black Arts & Black Power Movements
- Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
- Chicano Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Critical Race Theory
- Environmentalism
- Ecofeminism/Ecomasculinity
- Environmental Justice
- Food Justice
- Sustainability
- Veganism/Vegetarianism (Organic movement
- Free School movement (alternative/new schools)
- Free love/Hippie movement
- Gender Equality & Feminist Movements:
- First Wave (1848 – 1920), Second Wave (1963 – 1989), Third/Fourth Wave 1990’s – Present
- Women’s suffrage
- Women’s liberation
- Womanism
- Reproductive rights/justice
- Global justice movement
- Human rights movements
- Immigrant rights movement
- Indigenous movements
- Labor movements
- Land Rights movements
- LGBTQ social movements (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender social movements)
- Me Too movement (Time’s Up)
- Nonviolent movements
- Rastafari movement
- Sex-positivity movement
- Sex Workers’ Rights Movement
Doctoral candidates and faculty, please send a 75-word author bio and a 300-word abstract for review. Students who have completed a senior thesis or a master’s thesis, should provide an abstract for review. Undergraduate students should submit complete or nearly complete drafts for review. Submissions should be directed to the general editor at editor.researcher@jsums.edu by June 15, 2024. Completed article-length manuscripts will be due October 15, 2024. Final manuscripts should be in English and should be between 4,000 – 8,000 words in length with documentation in MLA or APA format.
All papers will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind peer-review process. Accepted papers will be published in the Fall 2024 issue and will be listed on the special issue webpage. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. The Researcher is an open access bi-annual journal that is also indexed in EBSCO’s Academic Search Complete: https://www.jsums.edu/researcher/.